Cartoonist Josh Simmons has taken his latest full-length horror graphic novel, Black River, on the road for a 24-destination tour across the country. Published by Seattle-based group Fantagraphics Books, Black River follows the grim misadventures of a group of post-apocalypse survivors and two dogs as they make their way through a bleak landscape of ruins in search of a city that reputedly still has electricity. The characters’ post-traumatic stress is compounded with a drug called Gumdrop, making their encounters with gangs of lunatics and sadists all the more terrifying and bizarre. Simmons is also the author of black-and-white, wordless horror graphic novel House and also The Furry Trap, a harrowing collection of modern horror short stories.

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